I have always been told I look young, and my Japanese diet gets credit for that. When I was in junior high, I was mistaken for an elementary school student. I was in university, and I was mistaken for a high school kid. When I started a business, I was told that I looked too young to be trusted! I […]

After losing 10 kilos (22 pounds) in two months, I started deliberating on how I could maintain the mind-blowing changes in my body to keep the weight off for good. As I mentioned in the last blog, I was not on any diet. I simply gave my digestive system a long enough interval between meals or any kind of […]

I was chubby up until 2006. I was slender until 1990. All those sixteen years, I tried every diet I spotted: eating tiny portions, avoiding carbohydrates, going vegetarian, squeezing sweat out on the treadmill, cutting down alcohol intake (very unsuccessful in this) and many others, just to fit myself in the size of clothes I had enjoyed before 1990. Nothing […]

To lose weight and maintain an ideal weight, “You need a program that satisfies hunger and has good food so it doesn’t feel like a diet.” (TIME magazine) A Japanese food diet is a perfect program in that sense. It satisfies hunger efficiently. Japanese cooking utilizes a small amount of glucose to provide with a comfortable level of […]

To my joy, Japanese food is very popular in Canada, where I currently live. I see lots of Japanese restaurants offering Sushi, Tempura and Bento lunch box. At food courts, I usually see one or two stalls selling Japanese food.